英文詩網站PoetrySoup列出史上最受歡迎的英文詩,網址如下:
https://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poems/top_100_famous_poems.aspx
1 Still I Rise 我將升起
Maya Angelou瑪雅。安哲羅 1928-2014
詩人朗誦自己的作品。
2 Im nobody! Who are you? 我是無名小卒!你是誰?
Emily Dickinson艾蜜莉。狄金森 1830-1886
3 A Red Red Rose 一朵紅紅的玫瑰
Robert Burns 羅伯特.彭斯 1759-1796
4 Sonnet 29 (When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes) 莎士比亞十四行詩 29(當不蒙命運垂憐,亦受眾人否定)
William Shakespeare 威廉。莎士比亞1564-1616
詩及好聽的歌曲並非原電影內容,為剪輯片段。
5 The Raven 大鴉
Edgar Allan Poe 艾德格.艾倫.坡 1809-1849
旁白之王James Earl Jones(他的聲音令人覺得很熟悉吧!)Darth Vader朗讀的版本,聲音與詩的意境相符,但是不夠恐怖。
The Raven故事短片。
6 When You are Old 當你老了
William Butler Yeats 葉慈 1865-1939
愛爾蘭兩大帥哥Cillian Murphy及Colin Farrell(愛葉慈是愛爾蘭演員的潛規則嗎?)朗誦When You are Old。個人較喜歡Colin Farrell的版本。
7 Because I could not stop for Death 因為我不能停步等待死亡
Emily Dickinson 艾蜜莉。狄金森 1830-1886
8 White Flock 白色鳥群(非英文)
Anna Akhmatova 安娜。安德烈耶芙娜。艾哈邁托娃 1889-1966
9 If 如果
Rudyard Kipling 魯德亞。吉卜林 1865-1936
費德勒跟納達爾朗誦If。
辛普森家庭kuso If。
10 A Daughter of Eve 黃昏的女兒
Christina Rossetti 克莉絲丁娜。羅塞特 1830-1894
11 The Road Not Taken 未竟之路
Robert Frost 羅伯。佛斯特(美國) 1874-1963
電視劇《何以笙簫默》插曲。
12 She Walks in Beauty 她在美中行
George (Lord) Byron 拜倫(英國) 1788-1824
Vanity Fair(浮華世界)的片頭曲『She Walks in Beauty』。
13 The Tables Turned
William Wordsworth 威廉。華滋華斯(英國) 1770-1850
14 Dickinson Poems by Number
Emily Dickinson 艾蜜莉。狄金森(美國) 1830-1886
我最喜歡的一首是『1176』(We never know how high we are),曾出現在電影奔騰年代(Seabiscuit)中。下面視頻唸得不算好,電影中的表現比較好。
We never know how high we are till we are called to rise.
And then, if we are true to plan, our statures touch the skies.
The heroism we recite would be a daily thing,
did not ourselves the cubits warp, for fear to be a king.
15 How Do I Love Thee?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 伊莉莎白.伯朗特.白朗寧(英國) 1806-1861
16 i carry your heart with me
Edward Estlin (E E) Cummings E.E.康明斯(美國) 1894-1962
詩人自己念的版本。
17 Annabel Lee 安娜貝爾。李
Edgar Allan Poe 艾德格.艾倫.坡(美國) 1809-1849
18 Sonnet 71(No longer mourn for me when I am dead) 莎士比亞十四行詩 71(我死去的時候别再為我悲哀)
William Shakespeare 威廉。莎士比亞(英國) 1564-1616
19 O Captain! My Captain! 喔 船長!我的船長!
Walt Whitman 華特.惠特曼(美國) 1819-1982
20 The City In the Sea
Edgar Allan Poe艾德格.艾倫.坡(美國) 1809-1849
21 Death Be Not Proud
John Donne
22 Cradle Song
William Blake
23 Mending Wall
Robert Frost
24 The Tyger William Blake
25 The Hourglass
Ben Jonson
26 Tears Idle Tears
Alfred Lord Tennyson
27 Inaugural Poem
Maya Angelou
28 Who will cry for the little boy?
Antwone Fisher
29 Sonnet 55
William Shakespeare
30 I Write My Mother a Poem
Fleda Brown
31 The Tide Rises the Tide Falls Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
32 The Childrens Hour Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
33 Frost at Midnight Samuel Taylor Coleridge
34 Crossing the Bar Alfred Lord Tennyson
35 Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey William Wordsworth
36 Jabberwocky Lewis Carroll
37 for a rainy day D A Levy
38 The Last Leaf Oliver Wendell Holmes
39 To a Mouse Robert Burns
40 THE ILIAD (excerpt)
41 The Walrus and the Carpenter Lewis Carroll
42 The Flea John Donne
43 Paul Reveres Ride Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
44 A Nocturnal Reverie Anne Kingsmill Finch
45 AN A.B.C Geoffrey Chaucer
46 Ode on Solitude Alexander Pope
47 Ode to Joy
48 His Excuse for Loving Ben Jonson
49 To Find God Robert Herrick
50 Man George Herbert
51 Blight Ralph Waldo Emerson
52 A Vision upon the Fairy Queen Sir Walter Raleigh
53 Emblems of Love Lascelles Abercrombie
54 Ode on a Grecian Urn John Keats
55 The Owl and the Pussy-Cat Edward Lear
56 In an Artists Studio Christina Rossetti
57 When We Two Parted George (Lord) Byron
58 Get Drunk Charles Baudelaire
59 Hélas Oscar Wilde
60 Burning Drift-Wood John Greenleaf Whittier
61 I Hear America Singing Walt Whitman
62 Dover Beach Matthew Arnold
63 I dreaded that first Robin Emily Dickinson
64 Christabel Samuel Taylor Coleridge
65 The Lady of Shalott Alfred Lord Tennyson
66 Recessional Rudyard Kipling
67 Casey At The Bat Ernest Lawrence Thayer
68 Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms Thomas Moore
69 Spring Edward Estlin (E E) Cummings
70 August 1968 Wystan Hugh (W H) Auden
71 A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General Jonathan Swift
72 The Darkling Thrush Thomas Hardy
73 The Charge of the Light Brigade Alfred Lord Tennyson
74 Gods Grandeur Gerard Manley Hopkins
75 Pied Beauty Gerard Manley Hopkins
76 To Atthis
77 To a Lady on the Death of Her Husband Phillis Wheatley
78 The Lake Isle of Innisfree William Butler Yeats
79 Ichabod! John Greenleaf Whittier
80 Hap Thomas Hardy
81 To His Coy Mistress Andrew Marvell
82 The Gallery Andrew Marvell
83 from On the Equality of the Sexes Part I Judith Sargent Murray
84 The New Colossus Emma Lazarus
85 The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives Fleda Brown
86 Concord Hymn Ralph Waldo Emerson
87 My Last Duchess Robert Browning
88 To Celia Ben Jonson
89 The Prologue Anne Bradstreet
90 Adam Posed Anne Kingsmill Finch
91 The Fire of Drift-Wood Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
92 Ozymandias of Egypt Percy Bysshe Shelley
93 The Author to Her Book Anne Bradstreet
94 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge
95 They Flee from Me Sir Thomas Wyatt
96 On the Idle Hill of Summer A E Housman
97 The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Christopher Marlowe
98 Doc Hill Edgar Lee Masters
99 The Magpie Evening: A Prayer Gary Fincke
100 To the Memory of Mr. Oldham John Dryden